{"id":1328,"date":"2014-12-26T18:48:04","date_gmt":"2014-12-26T18:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1328"},"modified":"2014-12-26T18:48:04","modified_gmt":"2014-12-26T18:48:04","slug":"consequences-of-insults","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/12\/26\/consequences-of-insults\/","title":{"rendered":"Consequences of Insults"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim-majority countries need to get a grip.<\/p>\n<p>First <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-europe-30602250\" target=\"_blank\">Turkey jails<\/a> a 16-year-old boy for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/12\/26\/mauritanian-journalist-death-sentenced-for-insulting-the-prophet_n_6380442.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mauritania sentences<\/a> a journalist to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad.<\/p>\n<p>Really? In the 21st Century? We haven&#8217;t figured out the benefits of free speech?<\/p>\n<p>How can a Muslim possibly believe Muhammad is harmed in any way by something someone has said or written! (Now, politicians like Erdogan&#8230;that falls under the category of &#8220;thin skinned&#8221;.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Muslim-majority countries need to get a grip. First Turkey jails a 16-year-old boy for allegedly insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and then Mauritania sentences a journalist to death for allegedly insulting the Prophet Muhammad. Really? In the 21st Century? We haven&#8217;t figured out the benefits of free speech? How can a Muslim possibly believe Muhammad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":502,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,92],"tags":[243,242],"class_list":["post-1328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-people","category-sharia","tag-mauritania","tag-turkey"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Consequences of Insults - Islam In America<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2014\/12\/26\/consequences-of-insults\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Consequences of Insults - Islam In America\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Muslim-majority countries need to get a grip. 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